Relevant video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMWNvwLiXIQ
Does someone have any actual text explaining this without the marketing preamble and cute Youtube speak?
Audacity Aquired by Muse Group
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Re: Audacity Aquired by Muse Group
#12How does one aquire FOSS software?
A big argument/selling point of the FOSS model has always been that it's compatible with capitalism. You are allowed to sell your software and build it as part of a commercial entity; the only difference is that you have to share the source code to anyone you sell to. There's no reason any company developing FOSS can't be bought/sold.
Sure, but what are they acquiring?
Re: Audacity Aquired by Muse Group
#13Does anyone know what this means? The code is GPL v2. It has 126 contributors on github. The project doesn't seem to use copyright assignment. What has been acquired?
MuseScore is also GPL, so I assume there is no intent to attempt to change the license. This probably is more about the organization, funding, direction, etc.
Re: Audacity Aquired by Muse Group
#14Does anyone know what this means? The code is GPL v2. It has 126 contributors on github. The project doesn't seem to use copyright assignment. What has been acquired?
Trademark maybe?
Re: Audacity Aquired by Muse Group
#15How does one aquire FOSS software?
Wasn't Expressjs the framework acquired by some company? It seems simple, a company take control of the official repository/webpage from its original author/developer in exchange for money.
Re: Audacity Aquired by Muse Group
#16Does anyone know what this means? The code is GPL v2. It has 126 contributors on github. The project doesn't seem to use copyright assignment. What has been acquired?
MuseScore is also GPL, so I assume there is no intent to attempt to change the license. This probably is more about the organization, funding, direction, etc.
Yes, but concretely, what did they buy? And from whom?
Re: Audacity Aquired by Muse Group
#17How does one aquire FOSS software?
A big argument/selling point of the FOSS model has always been that it's compatible with capitalism. You are allowed to sell your software and build it as part of a commercial entity; the only difference is that you have to share the source code to anyone you sell to. There's no reason any company developing FOSS can't be bought/sold.
Is there an Audacity company to acquire?
Re: Audacity Aquired by Muse Group
#18My first reaction was "oh no..". Audacity has to be one of the most beloved and widely recommended software of all time. It's not often that an aquisition like this goes well for very long. After looking at MuseScore and UltimateGuitar, however, it looks like they are also free and have a similar aesthetic to Audacity. Maybe this will work out after all.
Beloved is a little too strong of word choice for me. The UI is garbage. The plugin architecture is rough. It's difficult to workflow -- no automation is really available. Audacity produces good results, at the cost of an insanely high requirement for patience and experience. What you are actually in love with is the creative process of editing and creating audio. As a project, audacity has languished for a long time…
Much agreed on the history of Audacity. It has so much capability, but it's high time we fixed UIs that inspire anger or still depend on Athena widgets.
Re: Audacity Aquired by Muse Group
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
A big argument/selling point of the FOSS model has always been that it's compatible with capitalism. You are allowed to sell your software and build it as part of a commercial entity; the only difference is that you have to share the source code to anyone you sell to. There's no reason any company developing FOSS can't be bought/sold.
Sure, but what are they acquiring ?
Seems like they’re just hiring the maintainer and maybe their copyrights. Given the number of contributors, not sure how useful one persons contributions are.
Sounds like they want to connect it to their cloud services and improve the UI. They say in the comments they’re not looking to relicense and it’s hard to see how they could.
Re: Audacity Aquired by Muse Group
#20Muse Group hires Audacity team is simpler and much better said, nobody can acquire Audacity.